It reminds me of what the cyberpunk novels called 'skillsofts,' except you don't have to jack anything into your head; the thing is wholly external. I love the idea of being able to play a guitar, which I've never managed to learn even slightly in spite of several attempts; but now I could just put these on and play like Waylon Jennings, or the bass like Lemmy, or whomever else I wanted.
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Call me a Luddite or a paranoiac or both, but I don't want a computer to control my body, except in extreme extremis.
I especially don't want a semi-sentient, quasi-self aware computer controlling my body.
As for learning a musical instrument, that still has to be done by the human brain and muscles. If the computer is commanding my muscles, to whatever level of perfection, it's not me playing the instrument, it's the computer, using my body, that's playing the instrument. I'd be nothing more than the computer's pick on the guitar.
Eric Hines
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